The Creature Blog.
So we all know you can practice yoga in anything comfy. But after 20+ years of near-daily fieldwork I have discovered that not many things are properly comfy and practical for practicing all the weird and wonderful things that make up an āsana class - from comfy prāṇāyāma to things staying in...
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I was born and raised in Mexico, but I now live in a cute little town in the South of Paris,...
Every yoga teacher has their own unique toolbox that they pull from in planning classes - a whole variety of elements, some of them universal (the phillips head screwdriver), some of them more particular to the teacher (your grandmother's pencil sharpener, anyone?!).
Here are some of the...
There are many, many definitions of yoga, which change according to the time period, the text, the tradition, the practice, and the teacher. This week I've been thinking about one definition that has helped me out when navigating challenges. It comes from the Bhagavad Gita, one of yoga's...
It's my birthday today (this is Bess writing) and I'm thinking about depth, and intentionality. It was Maha Śivaratri last night, the great night to worship Śiva - who is (among many things) the original yogi, the great meditator, pure consciousness. He is the opposite of superficiality. Modern...
